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Sunday, August 11, 2013
No posts, no sailing. Have the boat back in the UK, have spent the whole summer trying to paint the hull, trying to do a 'proper' job, lost cause - its outside... should have just dobbed on a couple of coats of enamel, instead have been trying to use 2 pot, sanded off all the old stuff, applied 3 coats of really nasty epoxy primer, to find that it has pinholes everywhere... need to sand it all off again, it has taken a while to accept that. Still no closer.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Strømstad to Lowestoft via the Limfjord
Monday, August 01, 2011
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Summer 2011, W Coast Sweden, Varberg towards Oslo
There was a music festival. We attended a piano recital in a garden, drank a bottle of rose, enjoyed the evening sun.
Summer 2011, W Coast Sweden, Varberg towards Oslo
Very few cars on Koster. But efficient emergency services - someone fell ill so they sent in the air ambulance...
Summer 2011, W Coast Sweden, Varberg towards Oslo
We rented bikes and I made a prat of myself by charging off down hill and forgetting all about the continental system of back pedalling to brake the back wheel. It was very crowded, I was trying to catch up, overtaking a load of people, some kids ahead, touch the front brakes, stopped pedalling and bang! The back wheel locked up, skidded, I ended up in the ditch at the side of the road with lots of concerned people gathered around telling me how lucky I was and handing me bits of the bike. 
Summer 2011, W Coast Sweden, Varberg towards Oslo
Customs wouldn't allow us to leave the boat in Norway (at least they might have done, it depended on who one spoke to, I had an email saying 'no problem just tell us where it is' followed by a chat with the man in charge whose short answer was 'no'). So we went back down to Sweden, to the lovely Koster islands, where the anchorage was busy, but the holding good, and the weather calm. 
Summer 2011, W Coast Sweden, Varberg towards Oslo
Its nice to walk amongst the trees after time at sea.
Summer 2011, W Coast Sweden, Varberg towards Oslo
Went into Fredrikstad. Very pleased to meet up with Karel and Hannie who we first met on the W Coast a few years ago. Mona joined the boat and we stayed a night with friends who live locally. All very social after the time on my own. It rained a lot so no pictures, this is a few days later, the day after the massacre, sunset at a quiet anchorage.
Summer 2011, W Coast Sweden, Varberg towards Oslo
Pressed on northwards, crossed the border into Norway.
Summer 2011, W Coast Sweden, Varberg towards Oslo
The exhaust elbow broke in half after 7 years/700 hours. The big pipe is the exhaust from the engine, the small pipe is for the cooling water. We had both exhaust and cooling water filling the boat for a couple of minutes before anyone noticed, by which time the bilges were overflowing. Strapped it up with some leather and a jubilee clip, which held for long enough to manoever alongside at the end of the day. A fishing boat was in for a refit and the welder at the boatyard put it back together again first thing in the morning, so we weren't delayed.
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